It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection. These are the times when maps fade, old landmarks crumble and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.

@Handrock, which regional dialect uses that pronunciation? The dialect used around elite northeastern law schools clearly doesn’t. The dialect used by plain folks from the south (where I’ve been for the past couple of decades) doesn’t either. We may say it slower, but it’s still New-klee-er.
I posit the new-Cue-lar pronunciation is from the dialect of people who don’t know what they’re talking about.

If a Black candidate used Ax instead of Ask would you be so quick to mock? I have lived all over the place, and have meet people that speak with many different flavors, even people that have trouble pronouncing things still can be quite intelligent. I find it mean spirited to mock people in the same vein as hecklers do in High School. I once knew a Fellow by the name of Dieu, from Vietnam. He had been in the States for years, but still spoke Engligh poorly. As a result he was the subject of a lot of teasing. When I took the time to listen to him I found that he was a unique person with qualities intelligence and loyalty and generosity that were very admirable. This web site is really full of bigotry and hatred. Where I would like to believe that people with a higher moral sense would be less bitter and petty Unlike me entirely.

I can tell you, pal, that we at the Paliban are very happy with future-President Palin’s performance! And her return to the proper regional pronunciation of nuclear, instead of that uppity East Coast version her “handlers” wanted her to use, makes us love her all the more!

Frut and Jim
Are you that dense? Or have the HIGH time that are: “Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.” responsible for a lack of understanding? Jim how the heck did you survive the fall off the turnip truck? You are completely hampered by a mental rigidity that confounds the mind. You would be a blast at a Party, Jim says “there aren’t any apples in that barrel”

Make a comment that has some substance, something that I can understand what you stand for as opposed to what you are against. I can see that normal people are a problem for you in your lofty tower of idealism. Of course, you probably have an interesting concept of what is normal. What would you like to see Jim, come sit on the couch and let it all out, you will feel a catharsis.

It is not Nuclear power I am against but the methods of disposing of Nuclear waste that scares me. When they figure out how to dispose of the waste, then by all means go for it. But Republicans, as always, give no thought to long term consequences. Future threats of having to clean up this Nuclear would cost far more than $700 Billion dollars. McCain wants to jump right into building Nuke power plants but no idea of how to dispose of the waste. They have had to close plants because of that problem. Palin scares me because God speaks to her. I, for one take the Bible as a grain of salt. Jesus came to fullfil the Law of Moses, not to inforce it. I frankly cannot believe that a man, I.E. profet spending 40 days in the desert can speak for God. I don’t want a pentacostal praying for a way to govern this country.
I would be very embarrassed if she spoke as a soccer mom to the U.N.
She is hokey, a redneck and what really scares me is that she might be President. She is already referred to as president. I wish I could move to another world.

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